Thailand lifts ban on YouTube
News: After 5 months, Thailand has finally lifted its ban of YouTube in its country. The ban came after videos mocking the Thai King surfaced and resurfaced on YouTube — in violation of Thai law. To reach a solution, YouTube apparently agreed to deploy filtering of the videos in Thailand (although it’s still not clear to me whether that means complete removal of all offending videos from YouTube, something YT had earlier resisted for some reason). (More)
Analysis: I’m surprised it took YouTube this long to get the ban lifted. Maybe there’s not many users of YouTube in Thailand.
